U+1B7C "᭼" Balinese Musical Symbol Left-Hand Open Ping Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᭼
U+1B7C "᭼" Balinese Musical Symbol Left-Hand Open Ping is a specialized glyph used in the Balinese script to represent a specific musical notation for the traditional gamelan ensemble. It indicates a particular hand position, where the left hand is open, producing a "ping" sound on the metallophone instruments, and it serves as a critical part of the notational system that preserves and transmits the rhythmic and melodic instructions for Balinese court and temple music.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B7C |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Balinese Musical Symbol Left-Hand Open Ping |
| Block | Balinese |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᭼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᭼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAD 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1B7C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001B7C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1b7c |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| Script | Balinese |
| Script Extensions | Balinese |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |